Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveyard
Ceathrú An Lisín, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ceathrú An Lisín
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Pollnarelick Grave Yard
- Coordinates
- 53.08536, -9.56730
- SMR number
- GA119-079----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a small hillock close to NE shore of Inis Meáin. Indicated on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map and known locally as 'An Seanteampall' or 'Reilig Chimí' (Robinson 1980). A low subcircular scarped mound encompasses the top of the hillock (N-S 14m, E-W 10m). Plain grave-markers are visible in SE quadrant and at W. Cut by a modern field wall at SW and NW.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.